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  • 27-Mar-2006 Dominican Today
    Report considers DR hastily plunged into CAFTA trade accord
    Central American countries had negotiated every issue, and the Dominican Republic simply adhered to all that had already been convened.
  • 27-Mar-2006 Asia Times Online
    FTA to cut auto sales
    A free trade agreement between South Korea and Japan is expected to reduce domestic sales of local carmakers by up to 226,000 units annually.
  • 27-Mar-2006 MENAFN
    GCC, India likely to sign FTA next year
    India’s minister of commerce and industry said that GCC countries and India possibly will sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by early next year.
  • 27-Mar-2006 CBC
    Rally against partnership agreement
    Members of the islands public sector union and other Barbadians will be showing their dissent towards the most recent process of negotiations between Barbados and Cariforum countries this week.
  • 27-Mar-2006 Workers World
    Indigenous-led uprising challenges FTA, US domination
    Ecuadorian Indigenous organizations are in the leadership of the most recent uprising in that country, which began on March 13. Tired of being lied to, exploited and excluded, they have taken on the courageous road of challenging the Free Trade Agreement that is secretly, behind closed doors, being negotiated with the United States by President Alfredo Palacios.
  • 27-Mar-2006 AFP
    Malaysian activists launch campaign against free trade deal with US
    Malaysian activists over the weekend launched a campaign against a planned bilateral free trade deal with the US, saying it could undermine job and food security and the nation’s economy.
  • 26-Mar-2006 USTR
    The US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA): The intellectual property provisions
    Report of the US government’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC-15)
  • 25-Mar-2006 Korea Times
    US FTA set to impact entertainment industry
    Korean culture and entertainment industries will suffer considerable damage from a Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), a local think tank warned Friday.
  • 25-Mar-2006
    Peru torn over FTA with US
    Peruvians are divided Friday on the possible ratification of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with United States, because businesspeople insist on implementing it, but agricultural farmers reject it.
  • 25-Mar-2006 Forbes
    Free trade pacts are bad for business
    The WTO on March 22 issued a report criticizing the US pursuit of free trade agreements. The report claims that US free trade agreements create political interests in other countries, which complicate the multilateral process.
  • 25-Mar-2006 Jakarta Post
    RI seeks closer trade ties with US
    After four years of stagnant trade relations, the government plans to start intensifying talks with the United States and support a joint-study group on a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with the country, a minister says.
  • 25-Mar-2006 NDTV
    India-Asean FTA hits a roadblock
    The India-Asean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has hit a roadblock with Agriculture Ministry objecting to inclusion of farm products like pepper, rubber, palm oil, coffee and tea in the tariff liberalisation programme.
  • 25-Mar-2006 Granma International
    Indigenous movement proposes to assume its own power
    Given the rejection by Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio of the demands made by the popular sector, the indigenous movement is today to assume power itself and convene a popular consultation on the Free Trade Agreement.
  • 24-Mar-2006 Chosunibo
    ’Fisheries could lose W80 billion under US FTA’
    Once tariffs are removed under a putative free-trade agreement with the US, Korea’s domestic fishing industry could lose between W51.1 billion (US$51 million) and W84.9 billion (US$87 million).
  • 24-Mar-2006 The Hindu
    Kamal Nath for separate FTA with Bangladesh
    India is for a South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) "plus’’ a separate free trade arrangement with Bangladesh that would address the existing trade imbalance between the two countries, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Wednesday.
  • 24-Mar-2006
    FTA Watch statement: In support of Korean people’s struggle against the Korea-US FTA
    Although Thailand and South Korea are different in terms of development, people in both countries share a common demand for the protection of their right to affordable medicines and treatment.
  • 23-Mar-2006 Reuters
    US will seek fast renewal of trade authority: Portman
    The top US trade official said on Wednesday he would push for quick renewal of trade promotion authority, which allows the White House to negotiate agreements that Congress must approve or reject but cannot change.
  • 23-Mar-2006 SANA
    Some European countries call for endorsing Association Agreement with Syria
    A source of the Higher Committee Specialized in Following up Issues of Partnership Association between Syria and EU has said that the EU has started to issue positive signals regarding agreement with Syria, particularly that some EU countries consider that there is no excuse for delaying signing the agreement after two years of initialing it.
  • 23-Mar-2006 Upside Down World
    Ecuador: Protests against free trade reach critical juncture
    The Ecuadorian government declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, March 21 after countrywide protests and roadblocks led by indigenous peasants intensified.
  • 22-Mar-2006 The Star
    Malaysia’s Mahathir fears planned FTA with U.S. could have ’adverse’ consequences
    Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday warned that a free trade agreement with the United States could harm Malaysia, claiming that a similar pact signed with Japan recently has brought no benefits.